People In This Online Group Share The 30 Most Unpleasant-Looking Cities In America They’ve Ever Visited

From armpits of the state to middle fingers of the country—some of the cities in the US are known for being the least attractive urban settlements. Of course, beauty is in the eye of the beholder, so not everyone finds NYC or New Orleans pleasing, and perhaps some negative experiences would have influenced one's preferences. But there are definitely a few cities that stand no chance at not being called ugly and we are hoping that you are not living there.

A curious user u/teddyjr32378 on the popular Reddit community r/AskReddit decided to find out ‘What is the ugliest city you have ever visited?’ and below are what the users came up with with, so you can let us know if you agree.

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People In This Online Group Share The 30 Most Unpleasant-Looking Cities In America They’ve Ever Visited Vegas. Although I wouldn’t call it much of a city; it was more of a clusterf*** of buildings, neon, and wasted lives all stitched together smack in the middle of bumf*** nowhere.

doc360noscope , Flickr Report

Final score:

103points

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ThePracticalSarcastic 3 years ago

Las Vegas is not just the strip...next time drive a few miles in either direction then you can pass judgement. This hiker's paradise is 20 minutes from the strip and still in Las Vegas 29f460d205...f07889.jpg

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People In This Online Group Share The 30 Most Unpleasant-Looking Cities In America They’ve Ever Visited Bakersfield, CA - Never in my life have I seen such a sour sight. Oil wells as far the eye can see that it almost looks a heard of stationary ants humping the soil.

This_Apparatus , Wikimedia Commons Report

Final score:

88points

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tomruns12 3 years ago

I don't know where this picture was taken but it isn't Bakersfield. Bakersfield has a population of almost 400k and while there are oil pumps throughout the city and surrounding areas its not like this. There are also orange groves and many other fruits an vegetables. Bakersfield does have the most unhealthy air in America and terrible traffic. Source: My brother lives in Bakersfield and I live 2 hours away.

23points

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People In This Online Group Share The 30 Most Unpleasant-Looking Cities In America They’ve Ever Visited Gary, Indiana. The entire city was gray. No color. I thought I had gone color blind until I got to Chicago.

jDubbaYo , Flickr Report

Final score:

68points

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Vicky Z 3 years ago

Don't go to Mexico you will not like sepia...(just kidding)

46points

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People In This Online Group Share The 30 Most Unpleasant-Looking Cities In America They’ve Ever Visited Youngstown, Ohio. Pure depression.

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Final score:

58points

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Thorfin Wolfsbane 3 years ago

What's round on both sides and high in the middle? OHIO!!!!

29points

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People In This Online Group Share The 30 Most Unpleasant-Looking Cities In America They’ve Ever Visited After I visited Aberdeen, Washington I felt like I understood Kurt Cobain better. The natural surroundings are stunningly beautiful, but in the middle of it there’s this gray, dark, depressing town built on a swamp that feels like it’s sucks the life out of you. If a town could have feelings, this one would be utterly, hopelessly depressed.

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Final score:

57points

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Demi raccoon 3 years ago

Yes yes yes.that town is just sad

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People In This Online Group Share The 30 Most Unpleasant-Looking Cities In America They’ve Ever Visited Bakersfield, California, always gives me a headache when I visit it.

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Final score:

55points

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Kristin Ingersoll 3 years ago

Second entry for poor Bakersfield!

45points

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People In This Online Group Share The 30 Most Unpleasant-Looking Cities In America They’ve Ever Visited LA. depressing concrete s***hole and I'm glad I visited nicer cities in the USA. everyone was so angry/sad there.

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Final score:

54points

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ERIKA H. 3 years ago

You mean Downtown LA - so many people only think of downtown - next time venture out a little and you'll disocver LA is HUGE and there are a lot of great gems. Downtown is indeed depressing though

21points

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People In This Online Group Share The 30 Most Unpleasant-Looking Cities In America They’ve Ever Visited Modesto, CA. It should be a crime to make a city as ugly as Modesto in a state with so much beauty.

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Final score:

52points

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Suzanne Haigh 3 years ago

Well you know, whoever designed, planned etc this will be related to errrm, well those in control who have the pennies. Same everywhere

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People In This Online Group Share The 30 Most Unpleasant-Looking Cities In America They’ve Ever Visited El Paso, Texas, depresses the hell out of me.

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Final score:

49points

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Vicky Z 3 years ago

For me the depression is the laws they have against women, lgbtq and in favour of guns!

58points

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#10

People In This Online Group Share The 30 Most Unpleasant-Looking Cities In America They’ve Ever Visited Birmingham, Alabama. Half the city is just bland brown brick buildings from the 80’s, and the other half is basically abandoned ruins of bland brown brick buildings from the 80’s

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Final score:

46points

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Xenon 3 years ago

Not to mention "malfunction junction". Mess of roads and ramps that have being built for like 20 years. It's a terrible place, lots of crime.

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People In This Online Group Share The 30 Most Unpleasant-Looking Cities In America They’ve Ever Visited Johnstown, Pennsylvania... You can almost feel that the city is dying a slow, unsettling death...

RXIXX777 , Jon Dawson Report

Final score:

44points

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Leo Domitrix 3 years ago

That's common in many cities on this list.

15points

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People In This Online Group Share The 30 Most Unpleasant-Looking Cities In America They’ve Ever Visited Albuquerque, NM. Let me paint a picture. In a rental car after 14 hours of driving I make it about halfway into town. And need gas badly. I pullover to a pretty empty gas station. Just Some oily cardboard sheets spread out here and there. Trees pretty much envelope 3/4s of the sides of the building itself. I get ready to slide my card in the reader when 6 individuals start exiting the cover of the trees. Three guys take up sitting or lying down on the strewn cardboard and three women/girls of questionable age somewhere between 16 and 40 I ballpark approach my car and try to hem and haw and cough to get my attention. I pull my card back, say "aww s***, declines. F***." Get back in my car and speed away. In my rearview I see more people keep coming out of the trees. They didn't look pleased.

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Final score:

44points

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Vicky Z 3 years ago

I don't understand why buggs bunny wanted to turn there all the time!!!

19points

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#13

People In This Online Group Share The 30 Most Unpleasant-Looking Cities In America They’ve Ever Visited Independence, MO. — meth capital of the United States. Even the buildings look like they smoke rocks.

BongTravolta , Doug Kerr Report

Final score:

43points

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Leigh Boatright 3 years ago

Portland oregon. Needles and trash everywhere. The area around my apartment looks like a garbage dump.

12points

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#14

People In This Online Group Share The 30 Most Unpleasant-Looking Cities In America They’ve Ever Visited Gary Indiana is the best reason ever to remove speed limits from freeways. So you can enter and exit Gary in the shortest possible time.

You know a city is bad when the local government boasts there's been less than a dozen murders and less than 20 dead crack babies this month!

Things are Lookin' up for Gary, Indiana!

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Final score:

42points

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Elizabeth Roysden 3 years ago

I- what?

8points

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#15

People In This Online Group Share The 30 Most Unpleasant-Looking Cities In America They’ve Ever Visited 'City' would be generous, but take it upon yourself to never stop in Stark or Waldo, FL.

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Final score:

40points

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Kat Rob 3 years ago

Ah Waldo. Know for a big horse and speed traps.

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#16

People In This Online Group Share The 30 Most Unpleasant-Looking Cities In America They’ve Ever Visited Abilene, Tx. just empty buildings, ghettos, and more churches than i've ever seen. the churches are doing well. the city, not so much.

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Final score:

35points

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Emma Byrne 3 years ago

Interesting. I wonder if folk pay more to the tax avoiding church than they do in taxes?

4points

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#17

People In This Online Group Share The 30 Most Unpleasant-Looking Cities In America They’ve Ever Visited No one has mentioned Watertown NY so I guess I'll make the case for it. I grew up in the Watertown area. Have since traveled all over the US many times. I've seen some downright awful places but I've yet to see a place that captures the same kind of energy that Watertown does.

Watertown is unique in that it has the perfect combination of a depressed economy, dilapidated infrastructure and poor weather. It gets positively hammered with snow in the winter due to its proximity to Lake Ontario and often sets records for snowfall and low temperatures. The winters are brutal and sometimes start as early as October and can last into May. It exists in what was once the bottom of an ancient glacial lake so the low elevation means constant cloud cover which makes it gray and bleak during the summertime.

On top of that, almost any art or music that is written about the place is about how bad it is. Frank Sinatra's album Watertown is depressing as hell. Harry Chapin wrote the song "A Better Place To Be" while he was in Watertown. There are more examples too. It's so depressing that it inspires people to write about how depressing it is.

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Final score:

35points

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Cain Hargreaves 3 years ago

There are so many towns in New York state that are absolutely miserable (Mechanicville is another one).

12points

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#18

People In This Online Group Share The 30 Most Unpleasant-Looking Cities In America They’ve Ever Visited Albany, NY just feels like a really big Greyhound bus station to me. In the summer it's kinda gross, but in the winter it's a muddy gray sh*tpile. Whenever I've found myself there I've felt like I need to escape it - probably in an old school bus with razor wire strung around it with sharpened broomstick handles protruding from the windows.

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Final score:

33points

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H.L.Lewis 3 years ago

I spent a week in Albany NY one night.

30points

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#19

People In This Online Group Share The 30 Most Unpleasant-Looking Cities In America They’ve Ever Visited Cleveland Ohio. That place irritates my soul

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Final score:

33points

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Corey Smith 3 years ago

Hmmm, I don't understand. It's not the most beautiful city, but it is not ugly at all. Lots of features, lots of culture. Surrounding areas are gorgeous.

23points

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#20

People In This Online Group Share The 30 Most Unpleasant-Looking Cities In America They’ve Ever Visited Stockton, CA is some big yikes. Maybe not aesthetically ugly, but definitely socioeconomically ugly.

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Final score:

32points

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A C 3 years ago

What do you mean by socioeconomically ugly?

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#21

People In This Online Group Share The 30 Most Unpleasant-Looking Cities In America They’ve Ever Visited Laurel, MS. The try to doll it up on the HGTV show, but it's a cesspool. Upgraded to the most violent city in Mississippi last year, if I'm not mistaken.

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Final score:

30points

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Michael Vickery 3 years ago

There used to be a local musician who sang a song that went "Laurel, is a dirty stinking place." It's the Gary, Indiana of Mississippi.

5points

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#22

People In This Online Group Share The 30 Most Unpleasant-Looking Cities In America They’ve Ever Visited Oh my god. Why has no one said Houston yet?

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Final score:

29points

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Pezor Zass 3 years ago

Does Houston have a problem?

64points

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#23

People In This Online Group Share The 30 Most Unpleasant-Looking Cities In America They’ve Ever Visited I can’t believe no one had mentioned Rochester NY, Anything past Culver road. The worst parts are near Lyell and Monroe Ave. Place is a sh*t hole.

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Final score:

28points

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AzKhaleesi 3 years ago

Dude. .... I LOVE rochester. There's soooo much history. Yes there's some s**t parts. (especially Monroe ave) but I like to describe it as the most beautiful ghetto I've ever seen. Can't be too mad when there's trees grass and friggin squirrels everywhere. lol. But upstate NY is my fave. Rochester, Medina, Irondaquoit (I spelled that wrong I'm sure), you name it. Amazing.

20points

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#24

People In This Online Group Share The 30 Most Unpleasant-Looking Cities In America They’ve Ever Visited Blyth California

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Final score:

26points

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HighDesertArtist 3 years ago

But if you’re in Blythe, the shining star is the Courtesy Coffee Shop diner. Food is great and make sure to ask them to show you the amazing vintage dining room hidden behind the red padded door! They only use it for prime rib night.

7points

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People In This Online Group Share The 30 Most Unpleasant-Looking Cities In America They’ve Ever Visited Lawton, OK also. Only been on a few quick in and out missions into the town, but by golly does look like a mess.

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Final score:

24points

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Watching 3 years ago

Actually any town in Oklahoma can go on this list.

10points

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#26

People In This Online Group Share The 30 Most Unpleasant-Looking Cities In America They’ve Ever Visited Stockton California no doubt.

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Final score:

24points

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Salty Fox 3 years ago

Stockton was a solid 7.5/10 when I lived there

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#27

People In This Online Group Share The 30 Most Unpleasant-Looking Cities In America They’ve Ever Visited Terre Haute, IN. Truly the armpit of the state.

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Final score:

23points

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TS Rhodes 3 years ago

Clearly you have not seen Anderson.

6points

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#28

People In This Online Group Share The 30 Most Unpleasant-Looking Cities In America They’ve Ever Visited Cañon City, CO. The Royal Gorge is lovely, but as it's also home to multiple prisons, the rest of it is bleak as hell.

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Final score:

19points

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Curry on... 3 years ago

I told a friend that I was on line checking out Canon City's rents. She practically barked at me to avoid that town because of all the prisons.

5points

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People In This Online Group Share The 30 Most Unpleasant-Looking Cities In America They’ve Ever Visited Spokane,WA. It feels like it got left behind in the late 80s when Seattle became a major destination with no vibrancy or anything attractive about the city in general. Just bunches of residential neighborhoods with a few upscale eateries to keep it just out of last place.

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Final score:

16points

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Brandi VanSteenwyk 3 years ago

I am thinking that perhaps Spokane intentionally avoided becoming "another Seattle" on purpose. There were many very-desirable rural/suburban features that faded out as Seattle became a major destination. Spokane would have been smart to retain those things.

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#30

People In This Online Group Share The 30 Most Unpleasant-Looking Cities In America They’ve Ever Visited Niagara Falls, NY.

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Final score:

-11points

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AzKhaleesi 3 years ago

What???? you people are crazy that's beautiful.

20points

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What do you think ?

Hey Pandas!! Let's flip the script and list the prettiest, most-inviting cities in the US.

Sanne H. 3 years ago

My thoughts exactly! Or the city with the most creative street-art, the city with the nicest parks, the city with the tallest buildings etc... i’ve never been to the US and don’t know much about the country, so it would be nice to see some cool places

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Bella, Your Kitty-Loving Queen 3 years ago

Alright I’ll start: NYC. There’s so much to see and do, Central Park is really nice, not to mention some of the gorgeous churches there. For me it’s just so much fun, and I never get sick of it.

turtledove 3 years ago

yes. Spread positivity! The best places to go to are not the famous ones, but rather the ones that have nice neighborhoods and places within walking distance.

Commander Rex 3 years ago (edited)

Philadelphia! The only place that has true cheesestakes. Oh yeah and the people there are pretty cool.

Paddling Panda 3 years ago

I love downtown Chicago!

3points

Angeline Shalyn 3 years ago

Seward, AK and Homer AK

1point

A Z 3 years ago

Pittsburgh!

Jaguarundi 3 years ago

St. Petersburg, Florida is trying so hard to be pretty and vibrant again. The murals, the Arts District, the parks, the new Pier, the museums and all of the lovely cafes. It's worth a side-trip if you come to Busch Gardens or Orlando.

Bobert Robertson 3 years ago

Jerome, AZ. Savannah, GA. Chicago, IL, Seattle, WA., Telluride, CO., Portland, MA, Charleseton, SC

Don't Look 3 years ago

For real, I would love to see that.

0points

Two_rolling_black_eyes 3 years ago

There is an extended run along I-5 in California where it should be beautiful but the cities along it are a tragic assault against everything good in life. Several of them (Modesto, Stockton, Fresno) were mentioned in the article.

Mrs. Jan Glass 3 years ago

I've driven cross country several times, and I'd probably take the Oklahoma panhandle over that stretch of Central Valley, CA. You can practically chew the smell of it.

Red Hair Blue Soul 3 years ago

Why is Baltimore, MD on here?! Don't @ me, I'm from Maryland and worked in that dump of a city forever.

Jim Ellington 3 years ago

I worked in an office that had a large photo of its skyline frames on the wall. What a miserable little city.

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